Recipe - Maple Sugar Candy (Taffy-Like)

Maple syrup
Snow

From: Kenneth Allen Hyde HKA55365@vax1.utulsa.edu

Date: 21 Mar 1994 19:18:20 0500
Well I don't know how other people make it, but this is how my family
always made in Pennsylvania when we were sugaring off. Maple sugar candy is
one of the easiest candies to make. There are, however, two kinds: the
taffy like stuff and the cakelike stuff. I'll include both recipes. The key
to both is to use real maple syrup, none of this imitation "mapleflavored"
stuff (although Bgrade maple syrup will do fine).

1. Heat the maple syrup in a heavy bottomed pan, until it reaches the soft
crack stage. This should be around 260 F, but a better indication is to
drip a little of it into cold water and see what it does. It should form a
hard thread that will bend but not break.

2. When the syrup is at the soft crack stage, drizzle it decoratively over
the snow. Once it has hardened, remove it or it will eventually dissolve

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